Horizontal mergers : The Italian Regional Administrative Court clarifies horizontal mergers and provides detailed guidelines for defining the relevant market

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. TA Lazio, February 12, 2014, published March 20, 2014 By judgment of 12 February 2014, published on 20 March 2014, the Regional Administrative Court of Lazio (hereinafter "Court") - the court for the review of decisions issued by the Authority for the Protection of Competition and the Market (hereinafter "AGCM") - outlined guidelines on merger control, also specifying the powers attributed to the competition authority and the limits to the control power of the administrative judge. In the present case, by a decision of 17 April 2013, the AGCM had refused to authorise a concentration consisting in the transfer of joint control of a company owned by two